Belarus: Election Day

December 19, 2010 15:19 GMT

As Belarusians voted in a presidential election on December 19 that was likely to be dominated by strongman President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, opposition leaders cried foul and police appeared to gird for possible expressions of public dissatisfaction.

1A polling station in the capital, Minsk.

3An Orthodox nun casts her ballot in the town of Grodno.

4Heavy snowfall blanketed most of Belarus, with campaign flyers supplying about the only bursts of color.

5A woman casts a ballot from home in the village of Korolev Stan.

6President Alyaksandr Lukashenka waves to journalists as he arrives with his young son to vote in Minsk.

7Presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyayev holds a ballot that he refused to cast in protest.

8A man casts his ballot during voting in the village of Bogdanovshchyna.

9As the opposition threatened protests, police appeared to boost their presence near October Square in Minsk...

10...including with paddy wagons.

11Lukashenka wipes sweat from his face as he speaks to media after voting.